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  • Patricia Hall is a queer mum of a 6-month-old, who has been working in the Creative Disability sector for some years. This year Tricia is a participant in the Be Leadership programme, which focuses on creating a more accessible society for everyone. This was written for Fightback’s magazine issue on Urban Revolution and the Right

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  • Byron Clark is an activist based in Ōtautahi / Christchurch. This article was written for Fightback’s magazine issue on Urban Revolution and the Right to the City. To susbcribe to our publications, click here. Six years on from the earthquake that levelled much of the city, the population of Christchurch has almost returned to pre-quake levels.

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  • Bronwen Beechey is a Bachelor of Social Practice student, and lives in Avondale, Tāmaki Makarau / Auckland, and studies community development and social work. This article will be published in Fightback’s magazine on Urban Revolution and the Right to the City. To subscribe, click here. Avondale is a suburb about 12 kilometres southwest of the Auckland

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  • Daphne Lawless is a writer, musician, political activist, football player, e-cyclist and mother living in Tāmaki Makarau / Auckland. She is the content editor for this issue of Fightback. This article will be published in Fightback’s magazine on Urban Revolution and the Right to the City. To subscribe, click here. In any country with a past

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  • This article will be published in Fightback’s upcoming magazine on Urban Revolution and the Right to the City. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. YES (zero-fare public transport is the answer): Roger Fowler  is a community activist and organiser at the Mangere East Community Centre, South Auckland, and editor of farefreenz.blogspot.co.nz. He is also co-ordinator

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  • Vanessa Cole is a member of the Tāmaki Housing Action Group. This article will be published in Fightback’s magazine on Urban Revolution and the Right to City. To subscribe, click here. Elderly tenant Ioela ‘Niki’ Rauti has made headlines for refusing to be moved from her house on Taniwha Street, Glen Innes. While she has received

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  •   Peter Nunns is a contributor to transportblog.co.nz. This article will be published in Fightback’s upcoming magazine on Urban Revolution and Right to the City. To subscribe to the magazine, click here. As an economist specialising in urban issues, I spend most of my time analysing and debating how transport and housing policy can make society

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  • Tāne Feary is an eco-activist who lives on Waiheke Island, Tāmaki Makarau / Auckland. This article will be published in Fightback’s upcoming magazine issue on Urban Revolution and the Right to the City. To subscribe to Fightback’s magazine, click here. This article introduces the Transition Towns movement and looks at eco-villages, exploring some possibilities for the

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  • By Daphne Lawless When I was a young Alliance activist in Wellington in the 1990s, I knew Frank Macskasy well as a staunch colleague in the fight against the neoliberal assault on workers. It’s very sad to see him now promoting the xenophobic agenda of Martyn Bradbury’s The Daily Blog, known as the “Breitbart of

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  • Reprinted from the Communist Rupture blog. Gregory W.: In the article, Against Conservative Leftism, you suggested that “21st century revolutionary classes will not look like those of the 1840s or even the 1980s,” and that “the left should seek to build on the new social forces and ways of living that neoliberal globalisation has thrown

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